The Detroit Free Press reports on the three-day conference happening this week at the University of Michigan, commemorating the founding of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the 1960s. SDS founder Tom Hayden is the keynote speaker Thursday evening on the future of participatory democracy. Hayden tells the Freep: “I think Ann Arbor needs to dwell on this and give it a proper commemoration. And not shy away from (being) the birthplace of SDS. I think it’s a tough issue to grapple with. SDS has a mixed legacy, especially the latter years of SDS.” [Source]

MICATS (Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands) is reporting that two of its protesters have been arrested for locking their necks with bicycle U-locks to pipeline construction trucks being used for the Enbridge Line 6B pipeline expansion. [Source]

In a roundup of the lineup for the Aug. 5, 2014 primary elections, we overstated by one year Ward 5 councilmember Chuck Warpehoski’s length of service as a council representative on the city’s environmental commission. He served in that capacity during his first year on the council. We note the error here and have corrected the original article.